River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-10-13

On account of diphtheria, Miss Matte
Foster of the Randall district, River Falls
suspended school for two weeks.
We hear good reports from A. l.
Thompson's work at Fairchild, Wis. Mr..
T. is one of Pierce eountys leading peda.
gogues.
If you have any news, suggestions, re-
marks or methods which you think might
interest teachers, remember and send
them to "the column"
QUERY: VIII you please locate the fol-
lowing inhabitants Amphiscians, An
tiscians, Ascians, Periecians, and An
tipodes. c. G.
l.. A. Sahlstrom, Superintendent of Pc
pin county. resigns TO enter educational
work at College Springs, Iowa. Prof. I
H. Lage, principal of the Pepin High
School, takes his place.
There were eight applicants at the
Prescott examination, all females but
one. Average age was twenty-five years.
Four applied for second grade certificates
and the remainder for third. All were
experienced teachers but three.
All those teachers who receive special
report blank will confer great favor upon
us by filling them out carefully and mail
ing them to us at their earliest con-
venience. They are of especial value TO
us. Those who have not received one
will please notify us at once.
Every kind of instruction is due the
people-the best and the highest-and
the more of it, the more wealth and the
more happiness. Ignorance is poverty
and bitterness and conceit and DANGER
american Journal Of Education.
We intend to recommend through the
column, soon, list Of professional works
which will greatly benefit teachers who
will Systematically read them. They
will be such works as the leading educa-
tors of the state would recommend TO the
young teachers consideration.
The usual contract made with teachers
does not bind them "to make fires and
sweep the school-house." 1t is best to
fully settle that matter, however, at the
time the contract is made and then there
viii be no misunderstanding afterwards.
During the summer terms in a small
building, no teacher would refuse to do it.
1t is considerable to ask from the teacher
during the winter term, without COM
pensation.
Prof. ]. T. McCleary, of the Mankato
(Minn.) Normal and ex-superintendent
of this county, has made a very extern
sive collection of autograph letters of
leading men in the United States and
Europe. In the collection are to be found
the autographs of Gladstone, J. @. Ad-
ans, o. w. Holmes, Generals Grant,
Longstreet and Porter, with many others.
He has the ''Sweet By-and-By" in manu-
script, besides a number of other familiar.
hymns and poems.
Teachers, do you give to your profess
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careful attention; your keenest apprecia-
ton; your deepest thought; your calmest
reflection; your greatest enthusiasm; your
most earnest endeavor; your most intense
interest; the grandest activity of all your
faculties? you do not, you are dishon-
est in that degree in which you wilfully
neglect any of the above and are unwor-
thy the name, teacher. If you DO, then
you become the most valuable adjunct to
the community, the state and the nation.
Your head viii be lovingly crowned by
future men and women and your reward
such as money can not measure.
At the examination held in River Falls
sixteen applicants presented themselves
for examination. OF this number twelve
were females, and the average age of all
was twenty-five years. There were three
applicants for first grade certificates, two
for second and the remainder for the
third. Four of the applicants report no
experience and the average number of
terms taught by the remainder is four
and nine-tenths. Thirteen reported it
their intention to make teaching their
life-work, and two were doubtful. Eight
own works on teaching. OF disagreeable
work in teaching, government takes the
lead with reading next, while five appli-
cants report no disagreeable work. Arith-
metic takes the lead among favorite stud
les with geography next and physiology
bringing up the rear.
Teachers, make a thorough study of
that portion of the Manual entitled Moral
Education. then use it in the training of